A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 152
truth as to origin may be, the maturedstyles of the two areas are distinct, and a few of the more salientpoints of difference may be mentioned here. In the North, thefigures are generall)7 upon a plain metal ground on which areenamelled the inscriptions referring to the subjects represented :the… … Fig. 96.—Enamelled panel with St. John the Evangelist,Limoges, thirteenth century. 120 GLOSSARY there is a preference for lapis-lazuli blue, which is very commonlyused as a ground and diapered with coloured rosettes and circles ;inscriptions are rarely found ; figures are often applied, whollyor in…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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